Phenomenal Woman

HajiThePoet
ILLUMINATION
Published in
Jan 22, 2022

--

Photo by Jakayla Toney on Unsplash

Dear phenomenal woman with your lips like silk and sin

like tattoos carved into the folds of battered skin

like shadows clinging on to bare bones

beneath your fiery exterior, you wear a glass mask

This life isn’t a masquerade

You can’t hide between the crimson shades of your face
Can’t slay every demon that gets tangled in
in…

--

--

HajiThePoet
ILLUMINATION

creative entrepreneur . poetess . avid reader . music artist